On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:28:30PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 16:53, Axel Boldt wrote:
I would like to propose that we make filling out
the summary field
mandatory on ever edit.
I agree. The most frequent contributor to the mispeeling page, for instance,
has been an IP who never leaves a summary, and I have to diff the page to
figure out what he did.
I prefer to diff peoples changes anyway; a vandal isn't going to
voluntarily put in the summary "I VANDALIZED THIS PAGE!", so I don't see
how requiring a summary will change anything. A vandalbot could easily
put "various spelling fixes" or some such in the summary. Unless those
issues are addressed, I can't endorse any change of the sort proposed
here.
Jonathan
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